Speech Topics:

Note: These are just samples. Any speech or workshop can be re-tooled to your specifications or invented from scratch.

- Coming Out Loud & Proud: Bisexual Identity, Stereotypes v. Realities

- Organizing The Bottom Ground: The Bi Movement's Origins & Current Trends

- We All, Everyone Of Us: Building Queer Families' Values & Visions

- Choice Versus Destiny: A Bisexual View of How Sexual Orientation Is Formed

- Fighting The Right: How Bisexuals Are Targetted, How We Respond

- A Bisexual History of the Gay Rights Movement

- Sex Radical & Feminist - Exploring the Connections

- None of Us Are Free Until All Of Us Are - Interrelated Oppressions, How We Connect

- Bisexuality -- in History, Literature and Cross-Culturally

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Workshop Topics

- Unlearning Biphobia for Gay and Lesbian Organizers

- Unlearning Biphobia & Homophobia, Especially for Heterosexuals

- Dialogues Between Bi Women, Lesbians & Transgender Women; and/or Between Bi Men, Gay Men, & Transgender Men

- Sexuality - Identity, Orientation, Liberation

- The Kinsey Scale, the Klein Scale and Where We All Find Ourselves on the Spectrum on Sexual Orientation, Desires, Fantasies and Experiences

- Women's Issues/Men's Issues: a workshop focused on unlearning our own internalized biphobia and homophobia -- w/same-gendered and co-gendered segments

- Safer Sex and Relationship Issues for Bisexuals

- Building New Families - the Polyamory Movement and It's Meaning for Bisexuals

- Understanding Transgender Identities and Their Relation to the Queer Movement

- Counseling Youth on Sexuality Issues, with an Emphasis on Peer Counseling

- Sacred Sexuality - A Look At Cultural Traditions Where the Erotic is Holy

- Approaching Menopause - A Workshop for Baby Boomer Women & Those Who Love Us

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Writings & Videos

All of these are copywritten. If you wish to reproduce any of them, please contact Loraine Hutchins or other sources as indicated.

Erotic Rites: A Cultural Analysis of Contemporary U.S. Sacred Sexuality Traditions and Trends - Limited Edition original printing.
A fascinating odyssey of the sacred sex scene with many first-person accounts.
(what you'll see when you click, below)
Loving More capsule summaries of the research - "A Taste of Erotic Rites" and "Building Erotic Communities"
Excerpts from Erotic Rites itself:
Table of Contents
Preface - The Absurdity of Wanting Sacred Sex
Mother, Are You Sacred Whore?
Intro chapter - "The New Holy Erotics"
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The Sacred Whore article
Bi Any Other Name, edited by Loraine Hutchins and Lani Ka'ahumanu
Table of Contents
Excerpts:
Psychological Overview
"Love That Kink."
Bisexual Politics, edited by Naomi Tucker, Liz Highleyman & Rebecca Kaplan
  "Our Leaders Our Selves" - chapter by Loraine Hutchins
Bisexuality: The Psychology and Politics of an Invisible Minority, edited by Beth Firestein
  "Bisexuality: Politics and Community" - chapter by Loraine Hutchins
Political Writing
Sacred Sex Diversities, Pathways magazine, summer 1998
Bisexuality: Politics and Community
Sacred Sexuality, Loving More magazine, Winter 97/98
Street Before The Park, about Adams-Morgan and Belmont Road
The Day The Lesbians Stole The Press - A True Story
Honoring The Body Sacred, from Fall 1999 BiNet USA newsletter
"Towards A Bi Research Agenda," BiNet USA Press Kit
March on Washington, 1993 - Bis in the Military Press Release
Poly Conference Report, 1993
The Absurdity of Wanting Sacred Sex
A Taste of Erotic Rites
Building Erotic Communities
Bisexual Women as Emblematic Sexual Healers & The Problematics of the Embodied Sacred Whore - Journal of Bisexuality/Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century, Haworth Press, 2002.
The New Holy Erotics
Creative Writing
Dear David
Meditation on Visibility
Rainsong
Full Charge Circle Love
Full-Bodies Bouquet
Mother, Are You Sacred Whore?
Book Reviews by Loraine
Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
Angry Women, Andrea Juno & V. Vale, Editors
Memoir of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest
What It's Like to Live Now by Meredith Maran
A Review of O'Keeffe and Stieglitz: An American Romance by Benita Eisler
Interviews
Interviewing Annie Sprinkle
Being interviewed in Off Our Backs
Selected Speeches
Bisexuality & The Interconnectedness of Oppressions and Liberation Movements, Then & Now
"Queer DC Space", address to Lavender Languages Conference, American University
Why Queer Feminist Multi-Cultural Family Values Are Important To Us All
Stolen Land: A Takoma DC Neighborhood Reminisce, as told to the Takoma Village Cohousing Group
In Support of a Center for All Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender & Sexual Minorities in D.C.
Speech to the Northampton, MA Lesbian/Gay/Bi Pride March
National Coming Out Day speech at the University of Colorado, Boulder
Bisexual Fools in Love, Penn State
Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Speech
Video Appearances
- Betty Dodson's video: "Selfloving: Portrait of a Women's Sexuality Seminar".
- "Sacred Sex," an Australian public television documentary.
Video Reviews by Loraine
Best of Vulva Massage review coming soon in SpiritualityandSexuality.com
A Simple Matter of Justice
Prelude to Victory
Marching for Freedom!

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